'Media, You're Better Than This?'
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1 hour and 50 minutes
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168.74261
Summary
A woman in a car with a red cape on her head charged at a man and his girlfriend in Barnstable, MA. She was blinded by the red cape and charged at the man's car. She yelled, "You voted for Trump!" and called him a racist.
Transcript
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At a bullfight, there is a palpable twinge to the air.
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The moment the bull loses its mind, it first stands there.
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The bull stomps, howls, shakes his head, prepares to charge.
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Then it howls again, chuffs, and then charges full bore.
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And that's what takes your breath away, sprinting at the red like a steam engine that just can't be stopped.
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Only to have the red yanked away at the last second, if you're lucky.
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A man and his girlfriend waiting patiently at a red light.
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It was in the form of a 25-year-old woman in a gray Honda Civic.
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The man and his girlfriend heard banshee-like screaming.
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And got out of the car, thinking the 25-year-old woman was trying to tell them something was wrong with their car.
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She was in the throes and tosses of bull's rage, fixated on the red cape that was on the back of their car.
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She called me a racist and all kinds of other names.
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The woman reared her car, chuffed, howled, and then charged at the man's car.
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Then, with the smoke lingering in the air, the woman raged off, howling and screaming.
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Apparently, she was easy to spot, even easier to throw in jail.
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My question is, I'm wondering if CNN is covering this story today.
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I'm wondering if CNN, you know, because they're all very, very upset about the possible violence that the president is churning.
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I'm wondering if CNN has a moment of their day to report this story and say, gee, let's make sure we're not revving people up.
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When the election happened, I know a lot of people said that we're watching, you know, MSNBC.
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And then some people said, I can't watch Fox anymore.
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Jonathan Turley just did an article on the latest poll.
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Do you know where the most trusted name in news is now in the top 10 of trusted names of news?
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This, of course, begs the question, who was number ten?
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So, you immediately, I saw people online, because I posted this last night on Twitter, and everyone's like,
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Oh, yeah, well, that's just a bunch of crazy nutjob right-wing people that were pulled.
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Shows our faith in government institutions to tell us the truth, though, doesn't it?
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I mean, BBC and NPR are at the top of the list, but, you know.
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I would actually go for the BBC more than I would go for an American news source.
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I trust the foreign news sources a little more than I do American news sources.
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No, I mean, I just, only because we saw this during Barack Obama.
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Everybody here was not willing to go anywhere and say anything or do any kind of real reporting.
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And remember, all of the real reporting on Barack Obama happened overseas.
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The other part of that that's interesting is they don't have the same, the feeling of hesitation to say something about Barack Obama.
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For example, like, they like universal health care, single-payer health care.
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So they don't feel the need to defend Barack Obama.
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Don't worry, he just, you can keep your doctor.
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Like, because they're already down that road and they think that's a good thing.
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So they're saying to say, well, he actually wants those things, which, of course, was true.
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Isn't it absolutely incredible how socialism now all of a sudden?
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When I said on Fox, and we're trying to find the first time I said it, but I remember I said it the first time on Fox.
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I know exactly where I was standing when I said it.
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Because I think I just said it just off the top of my head.
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And I'm like, believe me, they were pounding me for saying that Barack Obama was possibly a socialist.
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And I'm making the case, how is he anything else?
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And they were pounding me saying that was racist and no, socialism, that is just a racial slur.
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It's an economic system that has failed every time it's tried.
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So I remember saying, you watch, at some point, they're going to have this thing so screwed up.
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At some point, they're just going to take off the masks and they're going to be, yeah, I'm a socialist.
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Is it still racist to call somebody a socialist?
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A great piece of writing that was completely necessary for the American people right now.
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This is something where the mask has come completely off and she's not ashamed of it, nor should she be.
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I'm not ashamed that I'm a constitutional capitalist.
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Why should she be ashamed that she's a big state socialist?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist who won the New York primary race with New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon.
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Nixon has embraced the political socialist label as well.
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There is no call for communal ownership of production, said MSNBC anchor, while trying to define democratic socialism, a term that has burst into the political scene.
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I am open to persuasion on this, but my instinct is that if you mean by democratic socialism is stuff FDR proposed, you might be better off using a more all-American reference point like the New Deal or FDR.
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Now, this is according to the Vox senior correspondent and to MSNBC as they are as they are trying to excuse it and minimize it.
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Then she quotes me, democratic socialists will not be covered by the media as the radicals that they are, said Glenn Beck.
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They are they're going to be covered as innovative, millennial friendly upstart with fresh ideas when they're really diet communists.
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OK, so the phrase she says is indeed everywhere.
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And she starts to tell us exactly what it means.
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We'll tweet it out from Matt World of Stu at Glenn Beck.
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She writes, I'm a staff writer at the socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of the DSA.
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And look, you know, American philosophy is I certainly appreciate it quite a bit.
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You know, and I think I tend to go to the idea that it's a miracle.
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But in that doesn't mean it's the only philosophy.
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And if you're going to believe something else, you should admit it.
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I'm a staff writer at the socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of the Democratic Socialist of America.
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In the long run, Democrats, Democratic Socialists want to end capitalism.
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In the long run, Democratic Socialists want to end capitalism.
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We do that by pursuing a reform agenda today in an effort to revive a politics focused on class hierarchy and inequality in the United States.
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We are seeing the end, as I've told you, we are seeing the end now of the progressive movement.
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It's still progressing towards this, but you're now getting to a place to where it is so juxtaposed to our system that everything is starting to break down.
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The gears are starting to grind because we're neither a capitalist society and one that follows the Constitution, nor are we a socialist or communist society.
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The age of reason and the age of postmodernism cannot coexist.
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Democratic Socialists share goals with New Deal liberals, but they want to go farther.
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Pooling society's resources to meet people's basic needs is a tenet of social democracy, one that's been advocated domestically by much of the labor movement
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and by many of its political supporters among New Deal and post-New Deal liberals.
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This is a vision we share, but we also want more than FDR did.
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Many observers see groups like the Democratic Socialists pushing for policies like Medicare for All
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and decide that we must actually be something like New Deal liberals who are simply confused about the meaning of socialism.
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Our goal is to rein in the excesses of capitalism for a few decades at a time,
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and we want to end our society's subservience to the market.
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Winning single-payer health care in the U.S. would be enormous relief to millions of Americans.
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Many progressives and an increasing number of centrist liberals,
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want private insurance industry to be replaced by a single comprehensive public insurance program.
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But we also know that Medicare for All is not socialism.
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It would only nationalize insurance, not the whole health care system.
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Doctors would remain private employees, for example,
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though under some plans they would be required to restructure their businesses and entities.
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Democratic Socialists ultimately want something more like the British National Health Service, NHS,
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in which everyone pays taxes to fund not just insurance, but doctors and hospitals and medicine as well.
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You can get those really nice black glasses, which are coming back in style now.
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You know, if you're really, really woke, you can have the glasses that the government has been selling to veterans
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So why are Democratic Socialists not demanding an NHS right now?
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Because we currently don't have the support to push for and win such an ambitious program.
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Some people say that this is a Trojan horse, but it's not.
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And he was only talking about single payer in that clip.
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They're saying here they want to go well beyond that.
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And of course, I don't think that's the end step either, but that's a whole other situation.
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Again, social democratic reforms like Medicare for all are, in the eyes of the DSA, part
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of the long, uneven process of building that support and eventually overthrowing capitalism.
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I could talk to an honest socialist all day long.
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I have absolutely no, I have no argument with an honest socialist.
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I mean, I have lots of arguments with an honest socialist, but at least it's, at least
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it's economic arguments, but I don't have any argument of, no, you're trying to twist
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At least then the conversation is worth something.
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So much of the conversation you see on cable news is two people yelling at each other with
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their little agendas and there's no attempt to get anywhere.
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This is someone who actually is attempting to get somewhere.
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I believe in the constitution and I'm willing to have the constitutional argument.
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I'm willing to take very unpopular positions and that is you got, we cannot regulate the
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You can't, you can't because where do you stop?
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You can't say, no, you can't put these blueprints out because once you put these, once you say
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you can't publish this, what else can you not publish in America?
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It's much easier to say, oh my gosh, well, that is just wrong.
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It's not popular to say, hey, that guy was making a joke.
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You may not like the joke, but he has a right to the joke.
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And if you want him fired, that is the company's business.
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They have a right to fire, but not because of a mob.
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That doesn't make you necessarily popular to say those things, but I'm willing to say them.
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Here is a socialist who is willing to say, this is what we are.
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And this is the way the world would look if we got our way.
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Hey, I'm willing to tell you that if I had my way, drugs would be deregulated.
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We're not a society prepared for that much freedom.
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Now, the only way that happens is if we also reduce the state so the state isn't responsible for everybody who's on drugs.
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And it's your job as a community, your job as a church, your job as a human being to regulate yourself.
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Well, you're not going to be able to get there right away.
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I'm willing to tell you what the end looks like for me.
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Here's a socialist who's willing to do the same thing.
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I mean, I just, again, you want to at least have someone who's trying to tell you the truth.
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If you want to vote for somebody, don't vote for her.
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Well, yeah, I'm kind of like that, kind of, but not really.
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Do you hear about the theft of the crown jewels in Denmark?
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So this group of people went and they stole the crown jewels in Denmark.
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Two crowns, you know, an orb and the, you know, I don't know, staff of you're a dummy, I can hit you over the head, whatever that thing is called.
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And they're like, you are not going to be able to sell them.
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I'll get into it in about a half an hour from now.
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I want to learn more about, you know, my behavior from watching the others.
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And I suppose, I don't think so off the top of my head, but I, I hope that we never acted like CNN.
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That we never, we were so blind we couldn't see, we couldn't see what we were doing as well.
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I mean, when it comes to, right now, CNN is saying, oh my gosh, Donald Trump is causing so much violence.
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Well, do you remember when CNN used to say that words on radio or on television, my one hour show, would cause violence?
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They're drumming it into people's heads 24 seven, that this guy is a criminal and dangerous.
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And there's a distinction there of a way we've talked about CNN in the past in which they, they obviously, I think lean left.
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But right now, I don't think it's necessarily motivated by liberalism or progressivism.
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And they can't, they don't like any of the things he says.
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And like, you know, I don't love them all either.
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But like, it seems to, to, to send them on this, this run of just out of control, um, hatred.
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And when they, we've talked about this before, when they think they've got him on something, then they really lose it.
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I mean, they're just in this cycle where they're just going to snap.
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I mean, like, yes, it's the people at the, you know, Jim Acosta got yelled at and people said, CNN sucks over and over again.
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Can I tell you CNN, you know, do you know what people said about me in the streets?
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Because you and the people on the left were drumming all kinds of nonsense about me.
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You're the same kind of, did you see what Cuomo was saying last night?
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That 17 is some sort of, you know, mystical number that talks and, and is, is shadow communicating.
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Well, it's that, that Q conspiracy thing that's been going around, uh, the interwebs for a while.
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Uh, and, and to be fair, a lot of people at the rally were wearing shirts with it.
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And I mean, it was seemingly a, a relatively popular item, uh, at the, at the rally.
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So if you're part of this and you love it, uh, forgive me.
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But basically the idea is there is someone inside the government, high level security clearances whose code name is Q on the internet.
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And he is, uh, he is battling behind the scenes, uh, to, uh, overturn the deep state on behalf of Donald Trump.
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And he slowly leaks out little breadcrumbs to the, uh, audience that's following this, you know, anonymous user.
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Um, and they are, they, uh, interpret what he says and build sort of conspiracy theories around it.
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Like this is the one, I think we talked about this.
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Roseanne, uh, is a believer apparently in this.
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And it's a, it's a, you know, a situation where it started with him making a really innocuous comment in a speech, Trump, where he said, you know, this is the calm before the storm.
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And that's like the, the genesis of this, that, that something is coming.
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And honestly, what's really crazy about this is part of this conspiracy theory apparently is that Mueller is actually not investigating Trump.
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He's not a bad guy as you'd think most Trump people would say these days.
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Um, because you know, Trump has been saying it for a while.
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He's actually a good guy working in tandem with Trump under the guise of the investigation to overturn the deep state.
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So apparently he was, apparently, uh, Trump was communicating by using the number 17, uh, during one of his rallies by saying there were 17 people or 17 Democrats or something.
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And that means 17 is these, I guess 17th, 17th letter in the alphabet is Q is Q.
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I mean, unless he comes, I mean, maybe who knows?
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Probably a little more out there than George Soros uses the open society to create a new world that, uh, you know, is borderless, uh, is much more socialistic.
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Chris Cuomo, where, what, what do I, what am I supposed to do with, um, he said 17 and that's the 17th letter of the alphabet is Q.
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Well, your conspiracy theories went farther than that.
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For example, you said stuff like in the long run, democratic socialists want to end capitalism and social democratic reforms like Medicare for all, uh, are part of the long, uneven process of building that support and eventually overthrowing capitalism.
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Well, yeah, okay, so that conspiracy, oh, wait, we just had a democratic socialist print in Vox, that very thing.
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You, Glenn Beck goes on and does an interview today.
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You go on CNN, you go on one of these news channels today.
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And at some point during the interview, they're going to reference the fact that in 2009-ish, you said that you believed, uh, you asked the question,
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is Barack Obama a racist, does he have a problem with white culture, which white culture being a quote from Barack Obama's book.
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Um, but you asked that question and you get asked about it about every other interview.
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That, that little meaningless throwaway comment, which, by the way, uh, we talked about much more in depth later on if you want to go back and listen to the archives.
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But that throwaway comment on Fox and Friends as a guest gets you asked about it more than a decade or a whole decade later.
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Today, we hear about Jim Acosta getting yelled, CNN sucks, um, by some people around him that didn't do anything else other than that.
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I also, uh, wouldn't want to yell that at reporters who are doing their job.
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It's not the way I, but I, but like, let's not overblow it for more than it was.
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It was a bunch of people chanting at a rally one year ago, a democratic socialist supporter attempted to kill 10% of Republicans that were elected in the United States in Washington, D.C.
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They were playing softball and a gunman came out and tried to kill all of them one year ago, not 10 years ago, one year ago, this occurred.
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And it is tossed away as if it was just a little blip on the radar.
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He was a Bernie Sanders campaign, uh, volunteer and tried to kill everyone on the Republican side.
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And we're supposed to get worked up over CNN sucks to a reporter.
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And of course, of course, they're not going to listen to you when you make points like that.
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Of course, they're not going to take you seriously.
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I mean, I, that would last if, if God forbid anything happened like this on the other side, God forbid, we would never hear the end of it.
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In 60 years, they would still be telling it and blaming it on us.
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And it's just, you know, I, I want to give the media the benefit of the doubt because some of the things that they do are, are good.
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And there's some people at CNN and on these other organizations that do a good job.
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But man, it's frustrating as an organization to try to take something like that seriously when you treat the other side so absurdly.
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When you are so focused on, on leaning one way, leaning forward, as MSNBC used to say, when you're looking that way, I mean, you can't be honest.
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You can't be taken seriously by people that you continually belittle.
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When we came to the Tea Party, it was, they were constantly being referenced as violent and angry people.
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We were constantly told that our words mattered so much that in a campaign piece, Sarah Palin could not use, we're targeting this district because that would be a trigger, a silent trigger to people.
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And how do you know who's listening to you when you say we're going to target?
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That means we're going to target and we should get a gun and target.
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You said that when we went out in the Washington Mall, that it would be violent, that it would be racist, that it would be hateful.
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The left sent the Black Panthers into our crowd.
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You, CNN, you are preparing this nation for a civil war.
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There is more speculation on CNN day in, day out than I believe in my entire career.
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I said, the president, I think, I said, I think he's a racist.
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Now, tell me, CNN, was that so wrong of me to ask?
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Because what I was sensing at the time was something I had never felt before.
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What I felt at that time was someone is coming against and trying to say that white people are bad.
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Well, gee, CNN, it seems like that's exactly where we are now.
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You are saying, well, I think all those people are racist.
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Just like, just like Barack Obama wasn't a racist, but he had a problem with the culture.
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There's lots of people that have a problem with the white culture.
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And I don't believe the supporters of Barack Obama, of Donald Trump are racists.
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I think that there might be some that are just like, I'm sure there were some Black Panthers that really liked Barack Obama.
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What you're sensing is people that say, my culture is okay.
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And we all, our differences make us stronger when they're added to the whole, e pluribus unum.
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You want to get away from the unum and just leave us as pluribus.
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But everything in our society has concentrated only on our differences.
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And this is what happens when you only concentrate on differences.
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I know enough about history to know that humans enslave people.
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I also am a student of American history to know how bad we have been as a nation.
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But I also know how great we can be when we come together.
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And you don't do it the way you are doing it 24-7.
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Don't you dare talk to me about my three-hour radio show and my one hour on Fox.
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And if there is bloodshed, I'm going to use your words.
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I apologize for letting my anger get the best of me here.
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You know, and CNN, I'm only using your standard.
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You don't understand why you're making the country mad at you, half of the country, because
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you told us for eight years anything we say is dangerous and would cause violence and civil
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In the next five minutes, I'm going to tell you what is really going on in America.
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In the next five minutes, you will understand, I believe, why there is a chance of a civil
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What is it that is that people have been feeling and they just they can't stop themselves?
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Right now, CNN is Jim Acosta, you know, was at a Trump rally and he tweeted just a sample
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of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa.
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I'm very worried, worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some of the conservative
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We shouldn't treat our fellow human beings this way.
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I would like to say, do you accept me as a member of the press and that I'm not an enemy
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In fact, everybody who was involved in the Tea Party was treated by the press as an enemy.
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We were called revolutionaries, anti-government.
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Now, this comes from Mark Caputo, who is a Republican, writes for Politico.
00:38:22.960
He apologized right away, but I just want you to hear because, and I'm using this as an
00:38:27.160
example, both of these tweets, we have to grow a thicker skin, grow a set, man.
00:38:36.980
Do we not have other things going on in our life?
00:38:44.320
But I'm using these as an example to illustrate my point.
00:38:52.480
And he says, if you put everybody's mouth together in this video, you'll get a full set
00:39:01.300
Then the next tweet, he says, oh, no, I made fun.
00:39:05.020
I made fun of garbage people jeering at another person as they falsely accuse him of lying
00:39:38.640
There is a group of people who think that they are better than another group of people.
00:40:01.040
And that group of people are tired of someone saying, I'm better than you.
00:40:14.080
I can't tell you the truth about this health care.
00:40:20.480
They're tired of being looked down on because they look differently, dress differently, live
00:40:32.440
Whatever the reason is, because you live in Central Park West, because you're in the
00:40:38.220
media elite, because you went to the right schools, and you are surrounded by people who
00:40:43.980
think like you, you have decided you know best.
00:40:54.700
Would any of you think about going in, live in these media centers?
00:40:59.260
Would any of you think about just moving into the center of a country and moving into
00:41:20.500
Progressives have always thought we, the educated, those who have power in the media and in the
00:41:28.520
universities and in the government should look at the rest of the sheep and we know best.
00:41:38.820
So this isn't really about, the anger is only coming from the two Americas and it has nothing
00:41:49.760
I'm out busting my ass, working at a 7-Eleven, trying to feed my family, and you somehow are
00:41:59.140
You somehow or another know what will fix my life?
00:42:05.860
For me, it's because the elite have such a dismissive view of people who aren't like
00:42:23.580
They can't even begin to understand it and they don't care.
00:42:30.840
I warn you, they're not garbage people and you're not garbage people.
00:42:41.480
And we need to find a way to live together, side by side.
00:42:45.940
That's crazy, but our founders found a way to do that.
00:42:52.200
And if we would just come back together and respect one another's individual choices and
00:42:59.440
individual life and celebrate that somebody else is different, perhaps we can avoid real
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Charles C.W. Cook is the editor of National Review Online.
00:45:15.400
And he's written a really great article, The Unserious Face of an Unserious Movement.
00:45:24.140
And I think he helps answer a question that at least I have, how does somebody go through
00:45:34.220
and have two degrees, one in foreign affairs and one in economics, and then not be able
00:45:41.160
to answer any of those questions as she is doing?
00:45:55.680
Well, I think we should separate out her from the movement she represents.
00:46:00.120
It seems to me undeniable that there is some energy in the Democratic Party behind what
00:46:08.360
And this is certainly going to come to the fore in the 2020 Democratic primaries, even if
00:46:12.980
it's glossed over now, because there are so many seats in play, you can custom build
00:46:21.080
And as we saw in 2016, Bernie Sanders does represent a growing contingent.
00:46:27.540
On the left, that, of course, is a separate question from whether she is any good at her job.
00:46:38.680
Now, people have asked me, well, why do you care?
00:46:44.440
She's running up and down the country in different jurisdictions, jurisdictions in which she's
00:46:49.860
Kansas, for example, making the case for her ideology and endorsing and supporting candidates.
00:46:56.900
She has been chosen as a young face of a facet of our politics.
00:47:13.300
And I hope that the public doesn't ignore her, because she's not actually a great saleswoman.
00:47:22.880
But, you know, there was a story that came out from Vox yesterday where a Democratic socialist
00:47:37.560
So there are serious people who are Democratic socialists.
00:47:44.460
There are certainly people who are Democratic socialists.
00:47:50.340
Well, I don't think that that is a serious position.
00:47:53.180
I don't see capitalism as sort of one tool within a toolbox that you can choose, that you
00:48:01.120
I don't agree with the contention that you can choose your economic system and you can
00:48:06.400
choose your political system and you can put it together like some sort of candy pick
00:48:16.360
I know, I mean, I hate to point this out to a man who sounds like you with your accent,
00:48:25.680
I think that you cannot have the American constitutional order without capitalism.
00:48:37.800
I mean, they use the words quite deliberately, democratic socialism.
00:48:40.740
What they're trying to do is get over the initial objection, which is, look, socialism
00:48:44.580
tends to lead to an absence of democracy, an absence of political rights, an absence
00:48:50.940
But this time it'll be different because we're not talking about Stalin.
00:48:55.000
We're talking about Norway or what they think Norway is like.
00:48:58.120
Now, I don't want to suggest for a moment that these people want to put people in camps.
00:49:03.500
I also don't think that what they want is achievable.
00:49:11.920
These things are a prerequisite to the sort of political order that we want to cherish
00:49:17.720
Because ultimately, you cannot have socialism without increasing government force over every
00:49:25.560
I think that's what the grind is right now that people don't really understand.
00:49:31.080
And that is, we are not a constitutional republic, although we are still more of that.
00:49:38.400
And we're not a socialist or, you know, communistic or fascistic state.
00:49:55.660
And I'm a conservative and I am a fairly radical, classical liberal, I suppose.
00:50:06.600
I think that the New Deal didn't just damage the economy.
00:50:10.240
I think it damaged our politics and our institutions as well.
00:50:15.020
But look, this is somebody who is not even capable of defending the position that she is supposed to be advocating.
00:50:25.980
She exposed herself as somebody who does not have a strong grasp of economics or politics.
00:50:32.800
If you were part of the hierarchy of Boston University, wouldn't you want her to kind of sit down and keep quiet?
00:50:43.940
Because honestly, if this is the way someone is churned out from that university with a degree in both economics and foreign policy,
00:50:52.580
and she can't really articulate foreign policy and she can't articulate anything economically, what kind of education did she get?
00:51:07.860
It's startling how much we have turned to what I call credentialism.
00:51:14.560
My dad left school at 15, served in the Air Force, and he started his own business.
00:51:18.860
And the way we look at human beings now is to assign him less value than me.
00:51:27.460
It doesn't in any way indicate somebody's worth.
00:51:33.580
What does surprise me is that she's willing to embarrass herself in the way that she is by starting sentences.
00:51:39.300
Well, you know, I'm one of the only people with an economics degree in the House.
00:51:44.320
But even if she were, if you start a sentence by making available your credentials, you better damn well back it up.
00:51:54.680
You go through a lot of the mistakes that she made, Charles, just in the first few interviews that she's done.
00:52:01.820
I mean, the idea, you know, the one that I caught, you know, when she was saying it initially, the $700 billion increase in military budget.
00:52:08.380
I mean, someone, economics and foreign affairs, how you could not understand right on its face that that's not true, that that is the entire military budget and not just an increase in it.
00:52:20.220
These are the types of things that are, this is surface level information for anyone who would want to participate in this debate.
00:52:27.020
You know, I don't, again, I think credentialism is a great thing to talk about because we really do, we do this all the time.
00:52:34.580
We act as if just because you've got this, you know, this, this degree that you're, you're above the rest of society.
00:52:41.740
And, and, you know, we discussed this with Brian Kaplan before about how we, we now are just striving as a country to show off the pieces of paper that we have rather than actually acquiring knowledge.
00:53:01.300
And as you noted earlier, I'm not originally from the United States.
00:53:04.440
I'm from Britain, which has its own issues with class.
00:53:08.980
But unfortunately, I do see some of the, the same trends popping in here.
00:53:14.380
If you remember when Scott Walker was, was, was running for president, albeit briefly back in 2015, Howard Dean said on morning, uh, that he couldn't be president, shouldn't be president because he hadn't finished his degree.
00:53:27.820
Now, in what universe could you look at Scott Walker and say, the guy's a failure.
00:53:33.340
Why did it matter that he hadn't done his last credit?
00:53:36.480
It only matters if you judge people, um, in this peculiar, um, sort of credentialized manner.
00:53:43.320
Yeah. If I were a plumber or, uh, uh, an infantryman, uh, or a truck driver, um, I would have looked at that and thought, well, what are you saying?
00:53:53.220
Are you saying that I am a second class citizen?
00:53:57.100
Are you saying, in fact, that, uh, America's, um, political institutions should be closed to me because I didn't go, uh, to the right monastery, uh, as a young man?
00:54:08.680
Um, and I, and I think she's probably, um, exposing that as well as anybody could.
00:54:12.740
I think that's, I mean, I just did a monologue, um, Charles on, on the real grind in America.
00:54:22.380
So many Americans is there are two groups of people, one that think they're better and they're smarter and they can make all the decisions.
00:54:29.820
And the others who are like, I'm not garbage people.
00:54:32.420
I mean, what do you, I don't feel that way about you.
00:54:35.060
Why are you looking down and trying to tell me I'm stupid or I'm less than, and I think we've lost the message of the Statue of Liberty.
00:54:47.020
Um, that's why people came here because there were guilds you had to belong to.
00:54:54.620
You had to be in the right family before you could do stuff.
00:54:56.940
But we've, we're recreating everything that we tried to get away from.
00:55:04.200
And it's an odd paradox here because we quite like dropouts, but only people who go into fields and make a billion dollars.
00:55:18.960
But if you drop out and you become a plumber and you make good money and you enjoy your work and you're very, very talented in your own field, ah, we put you in the other class, I think.
00:55:39.360
Well, I think that's the million dollar question.
00:55:41.580
Um, it is always the case that we need to refight the, the, the fights of the past because nothing is ever won.
00:55:53.380
We do seem to be in a period in which we've forgotten some of those hard fought lessons and, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others demonstrate that.
00:56:02.960
Um, if, if we, if we don't relearn, um, then we, we're in serious trouble.
00:56:13.620
And, and I suppose I have to be given my job and what, what I do for a living.
00:56:17.880
I believe that we can, we can win because we are right.
00:56:20.540
And we're, we're more in touch with human nature and reality.
00:56:27.400
You can follow him at Charles CW cook with an E.
00:56:35.760
There was a, there's a great, a few great articles in a national review.
00:56:40.540
Uh, but, uh, Jim Garrity, uh, has written one that, of course, of course, the headline just caught my eye.
00:56:50.940
Uh, but I was, I was struck by this article on what he's thinking about on problems.
00:56:58.140
He's, he's thinking deeper than I'd say 90% of the deep thinkers, uh, in America that talk about politics, maybe 99%, uh, on some of the, some of the things that are coming our way and the solution, uh, for it.
00:57:17.040
Glenn, it's good to, good to chat with you again.
00:57:19.060
So, uh, let, let's, let's go over the things that keep you up at night that were in this article.
00:57:25.780
Uh, actually Tyler Cohen, uh, who writes for Bloomberg kind of wrote his, uh, his worries about American decline.
00:57:31.920
And he had a lot of the points that I think most people think about slowing economic growth, uh, addiction, uh, entitlements and globally dominant China and all that kind of stuff.
00:57:42.020
I mean, it was a perfectly fine list, but when I thought about what keeps you up at night, and oh, by the way, I hope everyone doesn't stay up at night and they're not, you know, having too much caffeine late in the day or anything like that.
00:57:52.040
Um, I, I realized that what worried me was kind of a different list, uh, and probably most notably in things that seem like good developments at the time.
00:58:00.680
Um, virtual reality and, and games and all the different ways that we can kind of immerse ourselves into something.
00:58:06.660
Um, and look, I, I say this is a guy who enjoys going to the movies and, and all this thing as much as the next guy.
00:58:12.920
Um, Glenn, I don't know if you've ever played the game Civilization, uh, but it's, I, I used to have one, a version of it a couple of years ago.
00:58:19.840
And it's the sort of thing where you sit down in the evening and say, oh, I'm going to play a video game.
00:58:23.320
And you look up, look up when you, at the clock and it's 3 a.m.
00:58:26.720
You know, that sense of you could lose yourself in this.
00:58:29.940
You know, once we really get virtual reality going, once you can put on those goggles and feel like you're in a totally
00:58:36.660
different place, you know, uh, making out with a movie star, being a race car, all any of that kind of stuff.
00:58:44.360
How much, how many people get tempted to just lose themselves into a virtual world?
00:58:48.580
How many people would rather be in a virtual reality that is full of happiness and all kinds of good stuff
00:58:53.920
and not want to deal with what is admittedly a very, you know, very troubled reality, real world problems?
00:58:59.600
Um, I'm sorry, but when this becomes, yeah, sorry, go ahead.
00:59:02.020
No, I, I, I am, I was so pleased to see you write about this.
00:59:06.120
This is something that has been on my mind for almost a decade now.
00:59:10.000
And it is, uh, you just can't tell me human nature.
00:59:14.620
I mean, why, for instance, Japan, they're having a hard time because sex dolls, sex robots are
00:59:22.620
Now, uh, when that's actually good or when that's actually virtual reality at its, at its
00:59:31.380
Why, why would any guy say, oh, I, yeah, I want to, I want to come home and have somebody
00:59:43.320
I'm going to come home to a virtual reality woman who knows everything that I'm interested
00:59:50.780
And I mean, why would you ever leave that world?
00:59:55.280
Back in the late eighties, I remember comedian Dennis Miller doing a joke that said, man,
00:59:59.900
the day that technology allows you to make out with Claudia Schiffer, uh, it's going to
01:00:07.700
Once you have that opportunity, you know, like it's going to be a natural inclination.
01:00:12.420
You could argue that's probably part of what's fueling the opioid epidemic, right?
01:00:15.700
I mean, yes, life is going to have really tough problems and the question is, how do
01:00:21.080
And it's kind of tough to begrudge someone for wanting that escape, whether it's drugs,
01:00:24.800
whether it's booze, whether it's a virtual reality.
01:00:26.720
But I look at this, the technology is going to greatly outpace our ability to have good
01:00:34.120
And, uh, you know, that could be very big problem.
01:00:36.380
The other thing is that it kind of, I guess it was kind of a common theme that ran through
01:00:41.380
I went through the usual concerns about terrorism.
01:00:43.320
Uh, I also worry about how terrorism will affect us, but I also noticed, Glenn, I think
01:00:50.640
You look over the last couple of years, you see homegrown ISIS wannabes, uh, the alt-right,
01:00:58.100
I use the term Charlottesville nutjobs, and I had a few readers say, no, no, Charlottesville
01:01:06.220
The nutjobs who came to Charlottesville, not the people of Charlottesville.
01:01:09.300
Uh, incels, which kind of ties into what you were saying about Japan, Columbiners, which
01:01:13.860
are these, you know, deeply troubled young people who kind of get obsessed with, you
01:01:17.160
know, and all of them that collect this list of grievances.
01:01:22.680
Life has been, maybe it has, but they come to the conclusion that the only real way they
01:01:27.280
can deal with it is to lash out and usually through violence.
01:01:30.160
And I just think, man, you know, the world has never lacked angry young men and the internet
01:01:35.380
and the, the ability to kind of get sucked into this online culture that nurtures those
01:01:41.640
Instead of saying, you know, hey, snap out of it, suck it up.
01:01:48.800
Instead, you get this message of, oh no, you're right.
01:01:57.080
You don't even have to go to, you don't even have to go to the nutjobs.
01:01:59.500
Look how outraged we are at tweets, at tweets, we go apoplectic.
01:02:07.340
And it's just this nagging, you know, I, I, I was thinking about the, uh, I'm sure you're
01:02:12.920
probably discussing your program permit, Patty, the crazy woman out there who called 9-1-1
01:02:18.320
because there was a child selling, uh, uh, water on the street without a permit.
01:02:23.640
I don't, you'd see, we get a lot of these stories of people calling 9-1-1 over really mundane
01:02:29.100
problems that you, you figure most grown adults could work out.
01:02:32.720
You know, uh, the, the, the case in Maryland where they, uh, the, the kids who were unattended
01:02:37.540
and somebody called 9-1-1 over them, we've really turned into this quality of, perhaps
01:02:41.900
increasingly paranoid sense of, of regarding our fellow, uh, citizens with suspicion, seeing
01:02:48.280
Stranger danger, as we taught our kids and all of a sudden we treat, you know, kids end
01:02:52.680
up with like a ton of, uh, uh, emotional issues and wariness around strangers and stuff.
01:02:57.380
You know, what happens when that happens after God forbid, like another 9-11 style terror attack,
01:03:01.960
I mean, or, you know, God forbid chemical, nuclear, biological, I mean, that kind of stuff.
01:03:06.080
I do worry the sense of like people just, the American people might lose their traditional,
01:03:10.960
if not, um, friendliness to strangers, then even let's just say cordialness to strangers.
01:03:20.500
The thing that has always been different is, I mean, Einstein, one of his letters on American,
01:03:26.800
uh, on America and why it was different was because the Americans were always looking forward.
01:03:34.540
They, they accepted the stranger and brought them in and they were warm to them.
01:03:43.900
And it's one of those things where, um, we, you see the coarsening of our culture,
01:03:48.340
the deepening of our divisions and things like that.
01:03:50.520
And then you kind of wonder what, you know, this, this is a bad situation.
01:03:53.520
And Glenn, I'm writing a piece on, uh, what's going right in the country, uh,
01:03:57.760
the optimistic counterbalance to yesterday's column.
01:04:00.500
This is actually all things considered pretty good times.
01:04:04.680
Um, crime rate is low, but historically speaking, teen pregnancy, abortion rates, uh,
01:04:11.300
almost every measurement you do, we're actually in pretty good times right now.
01:04:16.200
Maybe you look at the news every day and you're like, uh, you know, what has he said today?
01:04:20.340
A sense of, of, you know, exhaustion and frustration, all that kind of stuff.
01:04:25.840
But let's take this current mood of the country and God forbid, there's another actual crisis,
01:04:30.860
you know, another hurricane Katrina, another nine 11, something like that.
01:04:36.260
Do we pull together or do we have, do our divisions kind of get the better of us?
01:04:39.320
Jim, do you think the, the, the idea that we actually are in pretty good times right now
01:04:42.860
is, is part of the reason why we are constantly overreacting to these little things like tweets.
01:04:49.800
We're kind of working on this premise here of Glenn's new book, uh, addicted to outrage.
01:04:53.620
And it does seem like part of the reason why we get so fired up and are so angry about such
01:04:58.520
nonsensical things is because times are good and we can't find real problems.
01:05:05.320
One of the points I made in the column, and I was thinking really chewing over back and forth
01:05:10.440
So one of the lessons of my lifetime, um, is that, you know, the nine 11 teaches us that
01:05:15.180
a problem that seems very far away and isn't really something we have to worry about.
01:05:19.740
There's this nut jobs in a cave and they got funny names and they say they're declaring
01:05:27.560
Uh, you know, they just, they're just a bunch of guys with box cutters.
01:05:31.820
And this sense of like this, this, you know, the nine 11 taught us this like really horrifying
01:05:36.020
lesson of something that you think you don't have to worry about can suddenly be the worst
01:05:42.280
And so now I think there's a kind of, it taught, then you have, okay, well, fine.
01:05:48.980
Uh, at least, at least I can trust the leaders of the Catholic church.
01:05:53.440
At least Bill Cosby is on my television to tit.
01:05:57.520
We've had the rug pulled out a lot of time and like that Lehman brothers, you know,
01:06:05.100
If that's go down, if that goes down, what's the worst that could happen?
01:06:08.540
Um, so we've had enough experiences in the last, you know, two, three decades or so to
01:06:13.040
kind of make us a little bit paranoid that a small problem could turn into a big problem.
01:06:16.840
And sometimes a small problem is just a small problem.
01:06:19.500
Um, I don't think that every, you know, uh, course tweet has to turn into a federal case
01:06:25.860
or get someone fired or, um, you know, get the full Kevin Williamson treatment or something
01:06:31.020
But at the same time, there's this sense of, you know, you could understand us being a
01:06:35.340
little gun shy, um, when, you know, when you're being told about scandals from the likes
01:06:41.440
So we're talking to Jim Garrity, National, um, Review, uh, and he's got a,
01:06:50.680
You, the, the scariest thing you lay out some really frightening things.
01:06:53.860
Um, but the scariest thing is the last paragraph one in six American express approval of having
01:06:58.640
the army rule more than 40% of wealthy Americans support the idea of a strong leader who doesn't
01:07:07.340
Half of Americans, only half of Americans know that the first amendment protects freedom
01:07:12.440
Half of us are arguing about what the laws ought to be based upon the constitution.
01:07:17.580
And the other half of us are arguing what the laws ought to be based on how our gut feels
01:07:22.960
Um, our unum used to be the bill of rights and the declaration of independence that there
01:07:28.980
were certain things that we held, um, self-evident and they were unchangeable.
01:07:32.960
And that's what brought us together and made us a melting pot.
01:07:39.140
We haven't, we've been, our, our, our education has been subverted, uh, and there is no civics
01:07:48.340
That's the real key to fixing this, isn't it, Jim?
01:07:51.460
I was going to say, I think that's a big chunk of the root of the problem.
01:07:55.020
Um, and people have been saying it for a while.
01:07:56.620
We all remember the Jay Leno segments where he would talk to people on the street and show
01:08:00.520
them a picture of the vice president and people have no idea who it is.
01:08:03.300
And then he would say, you know, he'd do some sort of, uh, you know, advertising jingle.
01:08:09.900
Um, but again, I think those civics classes gave us a common frame of reference and that
01:08:15.560
sense of like, okay, so if I want to enact a change, I have to do it within the constitutional
01:08:20.500
I have a executive branch, a legislative branch, a judicial branch.
01:08:24.200
It's got, if I want to do this change, it's got to be consistent with the constitution.
01:08:29.180
I got to, you know, and all this kind of understanding of the rules.
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And, and there's kind of this, you know, you saw this yearning and sad to say, and I
01:08:35.540
know you've talked about this a lot, Glenn, this is not a partisan problem.
01:08:39.380
There are plenty of people left, right, and center who just got to have this instinct of,
01:08:43.900
well, there ought to be a law and they don't even really want to think through the process
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of, of, you know, how you'd get that law passed.
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This whole thing with the 3d printing is driven me out of my mind in the last couple of days.
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We're talking, we're not even talking about the second amendment yet.
01:09:00.980
They're talking about a violation of the first amendment.
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You, it will be unlawful for you to knowingly publish fill in the blank.
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You don't say it's unlawful to publish anything.
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I was going to say, I think the perfect, succinct comment on this came from the wonderful
01:09:23.660
satirical parody site, the Babylon Bee, who observed that after watching Americans handle
01:09:28.320
2d printers, there is absolutely no threat of America.
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If you haven't had your daily hit of outrage, I'm about to give it to you.
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Stu, what have you always wanted to do with your life?
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I've always wanted to be judge, jury, and executioner of someone else's life.
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We have somebody, we have to decide, should she stay?
01:12:14.560
Now it's going to be a hard one because it's the New York times.
01:12:18.420
So you have to set your bias aside about how you feel about the New York times or hell,
01:12:26.900
And so there is a, there's a new editorial writer for the New York times, and she's made
01:12:34.600
some, uh, some amazing comments on Twitter, uh, dumb ass effing white people marking up
01:12:43.080
the inner, uh, marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.
01:12:48.680
Oh man, it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.
01:12:54.840
Uh, as white people, are you genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically only
01:13:02.920
being able to live underground like groveling goblins?
01:13:11.320
We're going to, we're going to spin the wheel and we're going to decide her fate.
01:13:31.480
The people who are working on Italian Job 3, the writers of Mission Impossible going to,
01:13:45.640
It has crips and old, uh, royal jewels and jet skis.
01:13:54.760
It happened in broad daylight, 14th century cathedral on a sunny day in Sweden.
01:14:04.460
Somehow, according to the Associated Press, the two men stole a gold crown and an
01:14:11.860
They were made for a king, King Carl the ninth and his funeral jewel encrusted crown dating
01:14:18.640
back to 1625 that was used with, uh, Queen Christina's funeral.
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So, they took the orb, the staff, and two crowns.
01:14:28.100
Now, well, let me just give you the rest of the story.
01:14:31.240
The items were on display at an exhibition, uh, and people were inside when all of this was just
01:14:39.980
Two men smashed the security glass protecting the artifacts.
01:14:50.180
They, they, uh, they were weighed down by the, by the loot packed on the back, but they were in,
01:14:55.300
they were in custom made baskets for the bikes, um, and infant carriers.
01:15:05.180
Either way, they made it to a nearby dock and hopped onto some jet skis.
01:15:08.900
So, they, they made a heist of the stuff from the 14th century on jet skis.
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I mean, this is really despicable and it's horrible.
01:15:32.360
They make you a crown and then they put it in a, in a tomb with you.
01:15:37.200
And then they just took it out recently to show it to everybody.
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It's been in a tomb for like, you know, three, 400 years.
01:15:46.060
I say these guys aren't at robbers as much as they are just the first archeologists.
01:15:54.060
It's a, I mean, it's, so what's the difference between opening King Tut's tomb and taking
01:15:58.520
everything that they left there that, you know, he's going to take with him and this,
01:16:02.980
Well, and they're still, it's from someone who they stole it from, huh?
01:16:07.400
They stole it from somebody who already stole it.
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I mean, if you need shoes and somebody has been buried in shoes, what?
01:16:26.360
It just makes sure you're endorsing grave robbery.
01:16:28.160
I'm just, I'm just saying, well, after a while, I mean, not like shoes would probably
01:16:36.080
You open it up for some shoes would be bad and especially new.
01:16:43.280
Like if they were the Pope shoes, because those always are very fancy.
01:16:52.960
And the only reason why I know that is because of a drunken, yeah, drunken mess I was one
01:16:58.700
Christmas Eve, you know, at the Vatican with the Pope and ended up with me standing on
01:17:06.980
a pew pointing at his shoes going, look at his shoes, man.
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But we can make it into a proud moment of your life right now.
01:17:39.260
It also involves talking nuns out of their tickets to Midnight Mass.
01:17:47.420
You know, I was 20, you know, maybe 25 and maybe 45.
01:17:55.100
I was definitely in my 20s and it's not one of the prouder moments of my life.
01:18:00.300
And I was with a friend and I was with a friend and the story ends with a very terse phone call from his very Catholic father.
01:18:11.780
Oh, who was happening to watch Midnight Mass that year from Chicago.
01:18:19.620
And he called, he called his son and said, was that you and Glenn standing on the chair pointing at the Pope?
01:18:34.780
And all I remember was saying, what are you just talking about?
01:18:44.080
I don't want to hear anything else you're about to say.
01:18:46.220
No, we don't have to go on to other things, Stu.
01:18:50.260
Don't act like this is a responsible broadcaster thing to do.
01:19:03.060
It's, you know, it's not one of those that you pull out like, hey, I just won an award.
01:19:14.420
So I was, you want to do this or do you want to go?
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I want to know what happened to you at the Vatican on television.
01:19:48.740
And I had gone over to do a USO thing, you know, on an aircraft carrier.
01:19:56.560
And then I decided to take a few weeks off and just, you know, just hang out in Italy and in Germany and just kind of, you know, do what 20 year olds do, I guess, you know, drink.
01:20:14.840
And this is really the beginning, I think, of my alcoholism.
01:20:17.880
Because if you travel Europe, especially Italy alone, and you discover how good red wine is, they serve it by the bottle.
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And so every meal is another bottle of red wine.
01:20:31.200
So my friend joins me in the last week, and it's Christmas week.
01:20:40.960
And so he says, you know, I really want to go to Christmas Eve mass.
01:20:47.220
And I said, well, I think you need a ticket for that.
01:20:51.980
So we spent, you know, all Christmas Eve, you know, just drinking.
01:20:57.420
And, you know, and just kind of going around and just being, you know, Christmas jovial Americans.
01:21:07.800
And so about nine o'clock, we're completely hammered.
01:21:42.900
And he said, I talked these two nuns out of their tickets.
01:21:54.920
I'm like, you shouldn't have talked to the nuns out of me.
01:22:08.780
And I'm like, okay, because if they feel bad, I'll feel bad.
01:22:11.060
But if they don't feel bad, I'm going to see the Pope.
01:22:13.660
So we go in, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you sit, and there's nothing to do.
01:22:25.160
And then the Pope comes in, and the music starts.
01:22:28.160
Everybody stands up, and it's very, usually very, very restrained.
01:22:38.140
But we decided we were, because we were about five or ten people away from the aisle.
01:22:45.240
And the Pope was coming, and we couldn't see past the people that were there.
01:22:55.980
Yeah, and stood on the folding chairs, and he started saying, it's the Pope.
01:23:22.040
They were like, you know, I don't even know anymore.
01:23:26.840
They were like, I don't know, red and either velvet or something.
01:23:35.060
But they were fancy shoes, apparently, because that's all I really remember was like, look at his shoes.
01:23:45.240
Was everything blurry to your eye at this point?
01:23:56.060
Somehow or another, my memory is from like a bird's eye view.
01:24:03.900
I'm going to make sure you see this the way I saw this.
01:24:08.060
Okay, so you've now stood on a chair and pointed at the Pope's feet.
01:24:32.620
Two days later, we were flying home and we're walking down the streets of Rome.
01:24:41.500
And, you know, there's all these shops that priests shop at, you know, and they have the cassocks and all that stuff.
01:25:08.680
And so we get to this store where it's all the, you know, stuff for, you know, bishops and stuff.
01:25:17.780
And I, but to my credit, I said, no, this is going too far.
01:25:29.420
He wanted to dress as a bishop to get moved up to first class.
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I wish I could tell you that the story ended with us in coach all the way back home, but
01:26:01.860
And I don't think we got on the plane and my friend had to go to the bathroom.
01:26:09.920
And as, you know, just about, you know, after the plane, you know, reaches altitude, I.
01:26:22.380
I hear an announcement that I am on my way home to get married to the love of my life,
01:26:31.840
who we hadn't seen each other forever and had found each other in a, in a very, you
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And all the stewardesses just thought it was this the greatest story ever.
01:26:44.240
So please, everybody, just give a round of applause.
01:26:48.000
And I was asked to come up with my friend and have champagne in first class on the way
01:26:58.820
It was very, uh, that's what happens when you're one with a Pope.
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If there's anyone at the Vatican listening, what year was this?
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If anyone has 1989 Christmas Eve mass and you'll see us, we were there.
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Well, still, you just kind of blew this show all to hell.
01:29:03.940
It's the most important show we've done in years.
01:29:10.400
We have a really important, you know, we have, we have, we have somebody to lynch as a mob
01:29:19.860
But I mean, I just want to make sure that we understand that somewhere out there exists
01:29:23.120
video of the 1989 or 1990 Vatican Christmas Eve mass in which you idiotically are standing
01:29:38.980
Uh, so, uh, the, uh, the papal slippers are made of red velvet or silk and they are heavily
01:29:46.140
decorated in a gold braid with a gold cross in the middle, uh, chosen to, uh, reflect the
01:29:54.220
blood of Christ's own bloody feet as he was prodded and whipped and push, uh, push along
01:29:59.860
the, uh, via, uh, Dolorosa on his way to the crucifixion.
01:30:04.400
I don't think they really reflect Christ's bloody feet.
01:30:11.460
Um, and I just remember them being very impressed.
01:30:15.520
You know, I am sartorial in nature, so I'm not surprised.
01:30:20.260
Believe me, the shocking part of the story is not the fact that you looked at the dude's
01:30:27.380
The fact that you were on video, gone through this entire career in front of the media and
01:30:33.220
no one has been able to unlock video of you at the mass pointing at his shoes and drunkenly
01:30:40.280
Well, see, as I was telling you this story just a few minutes ago, it really didn't occur
01:30:44.420
to me that you would be pushing for the look for that video.
01:30:48.760
It's interesting because I'm already coming up with a hashtag because I think this is something
01:30:59.360
Just suddenly, it's like right now, a gigantic throbbing headache has become-
01:31:03.740
Because there's a lot of researchers out there that uncover documents, videos, pictures.
01:31:21.880
As you mentioned to me earlier, that you're about, what, a third?
01:31:28.480
On the left side, if you're looking from the back.
01:31:32.280
And you said about nine or ten seats in, I think was the way you described it.
01:31:45.920
I'm willing to take your hashtag ideas to get this trending.
01:31:53.120
1989 or 1990 Christmas Eve mass video at the Vatican.
01:32:08.000
And, I mean, it looks like the type of thing that you wouldn't want to stand up on a chair
01:32:19.660
Please tell me that was not my son standing on a chair as the Pope came in.
01:32:36.900
What have we done as a society in which this video-
01:32:44.080
How has a major journalistic organization not pulled up this video throughout this entire
01:32:53.460
You know, you were a syndicated radio host 17 years ago.
01:32:57.360
Because until today, I apparently was very good at keeping this secret.
01:33:09.940
And this is not the papal story you are looking for.
01:33:24.540
Because we have something that I think is going to really-
01:33:57.160
It's been moments since we've forced someone out of their job for something they tweeted or whatever.
01:34:07.140
Sarah Geong, she is now on the Times editorial board, the New York Times.
01:34:44.220
Marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.
01:34:48.480
Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun,
01:34:52.220
thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.
01:35:01.040
Uh, she says, uh, white people have stopped breeding.
01:35:18.080
I just realized why I can't stand watching Breaking Bad or Battlestar Galactica.
01:35:22.580
The premise of both is just white people being miserable.
01:35:31.300
And you can't threaten anyone on the internet except cops.
01:35:36.660
You can threaten anyone on the internet except cops.
01:35:41.960
Oh man, it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.
01:35:49.680
One way to tell if it's racist or not is always to just change the color.
01:35:53.500
Can you imagine some of those with the word black instead of white?
01:35:56.860
And what would happen to someone who tweeted that?
01:36:02.460
What'd you, uh, what'd you throw into the, uh, uh, your latest book?
01:36:13.660
No, I don't think you understand how this works.
01:36:27.940
You're supposed to be burned books that disagree with what we believe in.
01:36:48.360
I don't know if we're supposed to be a mob and get her fired today.
01:36:58.480
She's on the editorial board of the New York Times.
01:37:04.260
We don't know if we should just start taking things out of context and calling her horrible
01:37:14.380
The New York Times, you know, they knew what they were doing when they hired her.
01:37:27.540
You know, it'd make me feel good is she got fired and we burned her at the stake.
01:37:43.560
We don't even know where she lives or anything.
01:37:52.080
If we are addicted to outrage, truly, we have to feed that addiction.
01:37:56.060
We certainly can't overlook someone with terrible opinions and just move on with our lives.
01:38:02.700
We could just say, I got better things to do with my time.
01:38:07.520
Of course, the New York Times has somebody like that writing for them.
01:38:10.920
And you know what we should do with that information?
01:38:28.240
But don't you think it would be better if we all just kind of were like, eh, so she's,
01:38:33.860
you know, a dumb racist that's writing for the Times.
01:38:44.300
I know if I see her name on an opinion, I'll know, well, this is coming from a racist.
01:38:56.600
I am really trying to, I'm, I'm, I'm, what's her name again?
01:39:02.420
Whatever her name is, she needs to burn at the stake.
01:39:08.640
Well, it's like, uh, we were talking to Kevin Williamson this week.
01:39:11.100
He was in, and he did his first interview, uh, by the way, uh, since he was fired from
01:39:15.280
I think it was his first one where he really talked about it in depth.
01:39:21.380
He said he taught it because I did the first interview with him this week since he left
01:39:26.680
And so this is the first time he's talked about it.
01:39:28.500
And, uh, he, I, that was one of the first questions I asked, did they know?
01:39:34.960
I said, they're going to take stuff out of context and they're going to go crazy.
01:39:43.080
And we would have like a, you know, what a week later or 11 days.
01:39:48.460
Wasn't he fired before he wrote his first thing for him?
01:39:52.220
I won something for about Roseanne was the only thing he actually got out.
01:39:56.040
But as he said in, as you were talking to him, you know, they, the, the outrage mob
01:40:03.640
And instead they'll have to read what I write at another venue instead of the one, instead
01:40:11.060
You know, it's not like the old days where maybe you could shame someone out of the New
01:40:14.380
York times and then they'd be nowhere and have no career.
01:40:17.220
Like this person, if you shame them out of the New York times, it's just going to go somewhere
01:40:32.320
I mean, it's not going to happen, you know, if we burn her at the state.
01:40:38.140
Seems like your Christmas sweater needs to go on there.
01:40:54.240
Is there anything else we can burn at the stake or any books we can burn or ban or anything
01:41:18.300
I worry about people's safety when you say things like that.
01:41:24.700
So now we can talk about burning them at the stake, but don't say they suck.
01:41:36.880
If you use that kind of language again, go ahead, Sarah.
01:41:51.620
When we can execute people in a mob sort of way.
01:42:02.580
I got a, I got a, I found a really great, it's probably my favorite tweet.
01:42:07.900
I haven't, I haven't tweeted this out again or retweeted it.
01:42:18.640
But, uh, it says a fitting end to fear mongering of Glenn Beck's manifesto of closed mindedness.
01:42:41.560
I, this is, I, I saw this the other day and I thought this is the best.
01:42:48.460
It literally says a fitting end to fear mongering Glenn Beck's manifesto of closed mindedness.
01:42:54.180
That's, that's an inconvenient, inconvenient book, right?
01:42:57.240
And they're, and they're literally burning my book.
01:43:12.320
What's, uh, what's the outrage du jour for you today?
01:43:16.000
Uh, well, I've, I've got some interesting stuff on, uh, Alex Jones again.
01:43:19.280
He, uh, claims that Barack Obama has sex with 10 dudes a day.
01:43:28.860
I mean, this is a little Cialis commercial right here.
01:43:31.880
I mean, I don't know how, I mean, Barack, how old is Barack now?
01:43:43.840
It's also, does he, does he have any evidence of that?
01:43:48.340
Well, he didn't, if he does, he didn't share any of it.
01:43:54.600
Like Donald Trump was using, you know, 17, which the 17th letter in the alphabet is Q.
01:44:03.380
A, B, C, D, A, N, F, G, H, I, J.
01:44:09.360
Think about how many times he used the word jobs.
01:44:33.040
So, well, so he's learning his lesson from all the lawsuits.
01:44:41.140
Pat will have all of the details and possibly pictures of the 10 dudes a day coming up in
01:44:58.980
They have an amazing new product is from the Royal Canadian Mint.
01:45:02.800
Um, you know, and we, we talked about, uh, gold and having gold as a, like a credit card
01:45:08.400
that you could keep and you could, you know, you could give to your, um, college age kids
01:45:13.240
If you were traveling, it would be able to get you, get you back, uh, home if there was
01:45:17.460
an emergency, but gold is so darn expensive now.
01:45:21.240
And if things really, really went crazy, you just, I mean, you couldn't break up, uh, you
01:45:29.860
You're going to need to deal in silver if things ever, you know, God forbid this ever
01:45:35.440
Um, and so we went to the Canadian Mint and the Canadian Mint has, uh, has made this, it's
01:45:41.960
It's about the size of a credit card and you can take this and you can actually break it
01:45:52.640
Uh, and there's, there's, uh, 10, one 20 ounce bars, five, one 10th ounce bars, and
01:46:01.860
So let's just say everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
01:46:10.160
Uh, one of these bars, I don't even know how much they are, that they're, they're not
01:46:17.400
And if things go to hell in a handbasket, silver will go up.
01:46:20.260
And this is all, um, legal tender from the Canadian Mint and it's solid silver.
01:46:29.820
It's really, I think one of the real smart things you can do and it can be kept into your
01:46:39.840
Just call them now at Goldline at 1-866-GOLDLINE, 1-866-GOLDLINE.
01:46:47.360
There's really good people that answer the phones there at Goldline, 1-866-GOLDLINE or
01:46:59.960
No, it's one of those things you'll, you'll forever, you'll be asked, where were you?
01:47:03.960
What were you thinking when you heard the first time that Apple was worth a trillion
01:47:09.420
dollars and you'll say, I don't know, I have no idea, but this is that moment.
01:47:22.520
That means nothing, but it is mildly interesting.
01:47:26.120
By the time you have that moment in the future, when you say, where were you when Apple cost a
01:47:30.900
trillion dollars, you'll say to yourself, by the way, you still owe me that trillion
01:47:35.920
I mean, it's about how much that will feel like at that time.
01:47:38.700
But it is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it.
01:47:41.700
I mean, a trillion dollar market cap for a company, uh, that makes phones and cables that
01:47:52.720
No, aren't you the person, didn't you tell me one time that you weren't appreciative of
01:48:02.880
You're doing a book, Addicted to Outrage, and I want to see you outraged at the cord that
01:48:09.380
brings the power, the electricity that powers your amazing zillion dollar cell phone.
01:48:16.220
I've already fallen into one of your spider webs earlier today.
01:48:21.440
By the way, we have not yet uncovered the video of Glenn Beck in 1989 or 1990 at the
01:48:28.160
Vatican Christmas Eve mass, standing on a chair and pointing at the Pope's shoes.
01:48:35.560
We're hearing rumors of some pictures, uh, from, uh, Michael Opelka, which I really want
01:48:41.860
There are some pretty exciting, uh, developments here.
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I'm never going to be able to go to the Vatican again.
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Last time I was at the Vatican, they allowed me to go up onto the scaffolding to where they
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were, were they redoing, you know, Michelangelo's, okay?
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And, uh, you know, when you're up there and you're that close, I mean, I'm standing right
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there and, uh, they, you know, they, they, I, all I remember is somebody just saying, don't
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And, and I'm like, well, you shouldn't let me up on the scaffolding this close.
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Do you know anyone who's ever touched the Michelangelo ceiling at the Vatican?
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Well, Michelangelo and the people with their snooty, you know, cotton swabs who were up
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As a country, we can all unite to find this video and embarrass Glenn.
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Hey, today, uh, you're going to see some, uh, college professors, some, uh, uh, elementary
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and high school teachers come to James's on the TV show tonight.